This DH is a tempting little cookie, and thatís not just because the towns on
either end sound like they were named by Mr Christie. Beginning in Tonasket,
you cruise up the west bank of the Okanogon River through a hydrogenated mix
of fruit farms and bungalows. The quality of the DHís ingredients improve,
however, as you veer westward through the dark and milk chocolate-colored
hills, savoring the creamy engineering along Spectacle Lake. The center
filling of Palmer Lake, squeezed between the baked mountains north of Loomis,
is especially delicious, since you lick your way around more than half the
circumference of its mouth-watering edge. And how do you resist those buttery,
meltiní-your-tires esses through the Similkameen River canyon between
Nighthawk and Oroville? Just a caution for allergy sufferers: May contain
speed tax nuts.